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Dear Medora : Child of Oysterville's Forgotten Years by Sydney Stevens and Willard R. Espy (2007, Perfect)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherWashington STATE University Press
ISBN-100874222923
ISBN-139780874222920
eBay Product ID (ePID)59010084
Product Key Features
Book TitleDear Medora : Child of Oysterville's Forgotten Years
Number of Pages180 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
TopicGeneral, Customs & Traditions, Life Stages / Adolescence, Historical
IllustratorYes
GenreFamily & Relationships, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorSydney Stevens, Willard R. Espy
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight23.7 Oz
Item Length10.5 in
Item Width9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-004947
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal979.7/0430922 B
Table Of ContentDedication Acknowledgments Foreword by Willard R. Espy Preface: The Forgotten Years Oysterville, 1902 Oysterville, 1908-1909 Oysterville, 1911 Olympia, 1912-1913 Portland, 1913-1914 Oysterville, Summer 1914 Portland, 1914-1915 California, Summer 1915 Portland, Autumn 1915-January 1916 Afterword Index
SynopsisWhen Medora Espy moved to Oysterville, Washington, as a toddler in 1902, the quirky, remote village was long past its heyday. The population had dwindled and times were hard. Chores such as milking, stacking wood, gathering eggs, chasing stray cows, and weeding the garden taught children responsibility and self-esteem. Frolicking in the shallow, warm waters of Willapa Bay, tramping hay in the loft, and riding horses bareback served as childhood amusements. Occasionally, major events such as a shipwreck, fire, or the escapades of some of the town's more colorful inhabitants brought a modicum of excitement. Dependable, devoted, and tender-hearted, Medora was the oldest child of Washington State senator and dairy farmer Harold Albert Espy. At various times throughout her life, she endured long months of separation from her parents, especially her mother. Whether the absence was due to the hospital birth of a sibling, her father's political duties in Olympia, or her own school attendance at the Portland Academy, the bond between them remained strong. Whenever they were apart, they always wrote, and Medora kept each and every letter. Practical and sensible, yet also full of laughter and heartache, the contents of these almost daily communiqués lend insight into the customs and beliefs of one American farm family during the early twentieth century. Sadly, Medora was just 17 and brimming with life when tragedy struck, and the letters came to an end. In Dear Medora , her lively correspondence and diary entries, interspersed with family photographs and additional background on the times and the Espy household, bring her generation and the Oysterville of those forgotten years into sharp focus., When Medora Espy moved to Oysterville, Washington, as a toddler in 1902, the quirky, remote village was long past its heyday. The population had dwindled and times were hard. Chores such as milking, stacking wood, gathering eggs, chasing stray cows, and weeding the garden taught children responsibility and self-esteem. Frolicking in the shallow, warm waters of Willapa Bay, tramping hay in the loft, and riding horses bareback served as childhood amusements. Occasionally, major events such as a shipwreck, fire, or the escapades of some of the town's more colorful inhabitants brought a modicum of excitement. Dependable, devoted, and tender-hearted, Medora was the oldest child of Washington State senator and dairy farmer Harold Albert Espy. At various times throughout her life, she endured long months of separation from her parents, especially her mother. Whether the absence was due to the hospital birth of a sibling, her father's political duties in Olympia, or her own school attendance at the Portland Academy, the bond between them remained strong. Whenever they were apart, they always wrote, and Medora kept each and every letter. Practical and sensible, yet also full of laughter and heartache, the contents of these almost daily communiques lend insight into the customs and beliefs of one American farm family during the early twentieth century. Sadly, Medora was just 17 and brimming with life when tragedy struck, and the letters came to an end. In Dear Medora, her lively correspondence and diary entries, interspersed with family photographs and additional background on the times and the Espy household, bring her generation and the Oysterville of those forgotten years into sharp focus.
LC Classification NumberF899.O9S74 2007
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